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Review

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Online magazine imagining new, sustainable futures through speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, & art. Demand Utopia!

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Highlights

  • Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
  • Response time:
    within 60 days*
    Editor reported data
     / 
    44 days*
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  • Acceptance rate:  / 
    4.15%*
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Payssee Genres section for details

Find more details in the Genres section

FeeNo

  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

    What's that?

    Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee

Fiction - 7500 words max

Max words: 1500

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: Fantasy, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative

Payment: $ 0.08 per word

Any genre of science fiction, interstitial fiction, magic realism, or fantasy has potential as a solarpunk forum—we welcome robots and elves with equal excitement.

Fiction - 250 words max

Max words: 250

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: Fantasy, Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative

Payment: $ 25

Starting in 2023, each quarter we'll publish a micro fiction mini issue that has four solarpunk stories of 250 words or less. Mini issues are posted to and available on the Solarpunk Magazine Patreon page.

Nonfiction - 2000 words max

Max words: 1000

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Sub Genres: , , , , ,

Payment: $ 75

Articles, essays, and general audience-aimed overviews of academic papers relevant to solarpunk.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Payment: $ 40 per piece

Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. Prose poetry is fine, but if you are in doubt, submit it as fiction.

Review

Max words: 1000

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Payment: $ 75

Relevant to solarpunk.

Interview

Max words: 1000

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

Payment: $ 75

Relevant to solarpunk.

Translation

Max words: 1500

Max words: 7500

Max pieces: 1

Payment: $ 0.08 per word

We accept translated stories that have never appeared before in English.

Art

Payment: $50-200

Cover Art; Interior Art. We are only interested in art that qualifies as solarpunk.

How to submit

  • Processs

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  • Cover letter

    A cover letter is not required. However, we appreciate a brief paragraph telling us a little bit about yourself like where you're from and why you love solarpunk. There is no need to include a third person bio. We will collect that and other needed info if your submission is accepted for publication.

  • Eligibility

    No specific eligibility requirements

  • Formatting

    Attach your stories, articles, or poems in .doc, .docx. or .pdf format. For fiction and nonfiction, please format your submission document as follows: double-spaced 12pt Times New Roman font indented paragraphs no extra space after paragraphs We prefer to read things in standard manuscript format.

  • Author's rights

    If we accept your work, we ask that you not publish it elsewhere or post it online prior to or within six months after publication in Solarpunk Magazine. For the rights we are asking for and other conditions, please see our publishing contract.

  • Additional info

    You can enter one submission per category per submission period.

Tracker statistics

236

Total submissions tracked

44 days

Average response time

4.15%

Average acceptance rate

-2 days

Fastest response time

182 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 248 days

Сhill Subs is able to provide internal statistics because you use our tracker! You're the best!

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The Submissions Grinder Statistics

4.13%

12-month average acceptance rate

43 days

12-month average response time

Submission calls

    Nonfiction, Review, Interview

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About

The time for solarpunk has come, and the mission of this magazine is to become one of many important catalysts for an important and necessary revolution within both the literary world and our larger culture. The genre has been around since the early 2000s, but the current state of global affairs in ...

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Founded

2021

Country

US

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    Editor Justine Norton-Kertson avatar

    Justine Norton-Kertson

    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor Brianna Castagnozzi avatar

    Brianna Castagnozzi

    Editor-in-Chief

    Editor Abriana Tuller avatar

    Abriana Tuller

    Micro Fiction Editor & Fiction co-Editor

    Editor Moshe Siegel avatar

    Moshe Siegel

    Fiction co-Editor

    Editor J.D. Harlock avatar

    J.D. Harlock

    Poetry co-Editor